25,042 items in this album on 1,253 pages.
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| British pilot Barrie Heath of No. 611 Squadron RAF posing with a piece of downed German aircraft, 1941 | British workers working on a M2A4 light tank that had just arrived from the United States, circa 1941 |
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| Buffalo aircraft resting on runway, circa 1941 | Bulldog mascot 'Venus' of HMS Vansittart, 1941 |
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| C-87 Liberator (cargo variant of the B-24) at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, 1941 as part of the “Arabian Knight” route-mapping operation. Note the large flag marking used as neutrality markings in pre-war 1941. | Canadian pilot James Henry Whalen posing with his Spitfire fighter, RAF Tangmere, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom, 1941 |
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| Captured French Army General Giraud taking a walk in the garden of the house in which he was imprisoned, Germany, circa 1940-1941 | Captured German Bf 110 C-4 aircraft at RAF Duxford, England, United Kingdom, 1941, as seen in publication US Navy Naval Aviation News dated 13 Dec 1943 |
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| Captured MB.200 bomber in German markings, 1940s | Central Bank of China 100 Yuan note, series 1941, front and back |
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| Chaim Rumkowski and Hans Biebow in the Łódź Ghetto, Łódź, occupied Poland, early 1940s | Chiang Kaishek with his son Chiang Wei-kuo, China, 1941 |
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| Children being evacuated by train out of Berlin, Germany, 1939-1945 | Chinese KE7 light machine gun crew, date unknown |
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| Chinese naval infantrymen of the Japanese puppet regime on the parade ground of the naval officer academy, Nanjing, China, circa 1941; seen in 1941 issue no. 12 of the Chinese edition of Osaka Mainichi | Claire Chennault, Song Meiling, and Chiang Kaishek in China, circa 1940s |
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| Close up view of 'Anton' turret aboard battleship Bismarck, 1940-1941 | Close up view of battleship Bismarck's camouflaged superstructure, 1940-1941 |
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| Close up view of Bismarck's foremast, 1940-1941 | Close up view of Bismarck's superstructure, 1940-1941 |
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